Processing

Ghana's cocoa sector regulator (COCOBOD) is poised to expand the country's earnings from cocoa through strategic investment in local processing capacity and value addition. Cocobod in November 2019 successfully signed a $600 million Africa…
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Management of the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has said the company has acquired the necessary certification to enable it to enter other markets in the sub-region. Instructively, CPC has noted that the recent access and receipt of a…
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The Association of Ghana Industries(AGI) is to collaborate with the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) to train young entrepreneurs in the manufacturing of chocolate, cocoa byproducts and other research products developed by CRIG to…
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The Ghana COCOBOD has released figures which show that the country has exported cocoa beans as of January 2020 to the tune of 596,000 tonnes. This is an increase in the export of cocoa beans recorded in the previous season which stood at…
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Global food corporation - Cargill - says it is injecting more than US$113 million into expanding its cocoa processing sites in Ivory Coast and Ghana. According to Cargill, an American cocoa processing multinational, $100 million out of…
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A group of consumers sued the largest food company in the world Thursday, accusing it of misleading customers by producing fake white chocolate while passing it off as real. Lead plaintiffs Steven Prescott and Linda Cheslow filed a class…
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Research has been conducted on so-called noble cocoa (the varieties Criollo and Trinitario) to fine-tune the taste and make several different varieties of chocolate. Since the majority of the world’s cocoa production is of the Forastero…
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Ivory Coast cocoa grinders have processed 455,000 tonnes of beans since the start of the season in October to the end of July, data from exporters’ association GEPEX showed on Friday. This is up 8% from 421,000 tonnes during same period…
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Higher cocoa prices are having a dampening effect on demand according to figures published by the European Cocoa Association. Second-quarter cocoa grinding in Europe declined by a surprising 3.2% year-on-year. Market participants…
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